GDJ

Took the plunge and picked up a i7-13700K processor that was on sale for $200 off normal price. It's certainly has more OOMPH than the i3-13100 I had before, but that processor handled KSP1 like a champ, so no bad opinions about it. For a good general purpose computer the i3's in either the 13th gen or 14th gen are more than fine for that. The i7 can take advantage of faster RAM speeds, so that's a plus. My cooler seems to be handling the extra load well enough.

Ahh yes I forgot about that. Our Thanksgiving is in mid October so we get a little bit more than two months of no Turkey days.

That works.

Worthy. Homemade Lasagna?

BBQ this year. Turkey and Duck. The neighbours hate me because it smells better than their dinner!

Same here on the moderation. I go thru a 6-er of beer about once a year. Wine is so far one bottle a year.

Thanks, but I think the family can do without my “singing” voice. Wine for me. I love beer but I can only have one or two (issues with hops. Mildly allergic I think) and good cognac is bloody expensive.

Doing a bit of recovery from my Daughters 21st birthday. Involved Karaoke (groan) and a lot of shots at the bar. I like tequila, but the next day I can do without.

Good to hear from you. Keeping you in my happy thoughts for new employment and workspace.

Been a while since I played (Real life stuff. Wife got a promotion, had to move to a new city, helped her move. Also Father-m-law died 2 weeks ago) but I had a chance to fly a favorite of mine. Lands like butter, even with FAR, which makes things alot harder to do.

Very underrated actress. I have yet to find a movie which her character was not enjoyable.

Well, it's better than a kick in the butt with a frozen Mukluk.

Aww damn. I always liked her.

Personally I’d leave Scatterer out of your list. It’s temperamental at best. As for Eve, Waterfall and Spectra I have no experience with. The rest look fine. 8 gigs is a bit low on RAM but the M1 is plenty fast enough for KSP1. Start your mod list small the slowly build it up. Do one at a time so if you run into a mod that conflicts with others it can be eliminated easily and makes diagnostics easier.

I will consider disabling FAR for this. I will give it a bit more thought.

He is one with the force. RIP James.

Sounds interesting. Stock aero or FAR?

Put on a larger air cooler for the i3-13100 (Deepcool AK620). Synthetic tests on all 4 cores running at 100% for one hour are good. Temperatures never exceed 68C on any core. I am happy as hell. As for a different processor (i5 or i7) the Intel microcode fiasco and oxidation issues in the late 13th gen to 14th gen processors has put me off for now. Right now my i3 is not showing any issues and as the old saying goes: "If it ain't broke don't fix it" Eventually I'll pick up a i7 14th gen processor but not until the issues have been ironed out on Intel's end.

1920 x 1080. This can be set in the settings menu.

You can probably get away with 1080p, but no extras effects pertaining to water, land and air. Anti-aliasing will be every other frame.

CPU will be fine. The onboard graphics on the CPU will be the weak end probably. Resolutions will have to be sandbagged down a bit. I’m running a 2018 Mac Mini with the 6 core i7 and 64 gigs of DDR4 2667 MHz RAM. the onboard graphics are lacking despite the CPU being WAY overpowered for KSP1.

This is why NiMH batteries are still around. I love Lithiums for the energy density, but when you see this happening........

Same here.

And the news gets better by the day.........

Yep. She was unique.